Edited by Lester Brathwaite
Fashion is perhaps the most openly racist industry in the world today — examples A, B and C…and D, E, and F– but W‘s new fashion and style editor, Edward Enninful hopes that we’ll all soon be “one global fashion industry.”
Edited by Lester Brathwaite
“São Paulo fashion week sells the image of a Swiss Brazil where everyone is white and blue-eyed. The organisers … forget that more than half of Brazil’s population is black,” says Frei Davi Santos, a Brazilian race campaigner behind a series of protests over São Paulo Fashion Week.
Edited by Saynt
Priscilla Darolt hit the runways of San Paulo Fashion Week. Incorporating metallics and textured creasing, her collection will be one to watch for trend forecasters prepping for fall.
GALLERY: Priscilla Darolt Fall 2009
Edited by Rebecca Alexander
After it came to a close earlier this week, the final word on São Paulo Fashion Week was “eclectic”—the urban personalities on display ranged from straight-up feminine to warrior spirit to sexed-up icons to cosplay-inspired collections that could have easily been transplanted to the streets of Tokyo. This last was especially appropriate as this SPFW marked the centennial of the Japanese migration to Brazil, and Kenzo starred as a special guest.
There were, of course, some common themes for the forthcoming Brazilian summer: washed-out hues, delicate fabrics and voluminous silhouettes. Aside from Maria Bonita‘s roomy overalls and Alexandre Herchcovitch‘s military/flower garden collage, emerging label Maria Garcia also made an impression with its girlish mini dresses with a twist. Femininity is in Isabela Capeto‘s blood, and this season she integrated Mexican iconography into her super-delicate embroideries and hand-crafted details. A nod should also be given to Reinaldo Lourenço‘s pretty dolls dressed on delicate latticework dresses.
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